To Be Heard Quotes

I've heard it said that the first law of journalism is to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard.

Sometimes you have to be silent to be heard.

Leviathan is not the biggest fish; — I have heard of Krakens.

I heard the rumours,but the only blond people here [in Sweden] are the guys. And they all look like Ellen DeGeneres. It's Ellen DeGeneres world, and it's all guys! It's now switched.

Injustice can never be stood for.

The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair

Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing Brahms ballades - haunting.

You may have heard that back in the States there are some people who are smoking grass. I don't know how you feel, but it's sure easier than cutting the stuff.

I actually got a part in 'The Love Guru', that Mike Myers film. I heard it's awful. I got a Razzie award for it, which I'm quite proud of, but I still haven't seen it. I have no plans to branch out.

When I first heard Elvis perform "Bridge Over Trouble Water" it was unbelivable,and I thought to myself, how the hell can I compete with that?

I had heard some women make comments about my chest, so why not show it off? Nobody wants to see a fat guy in tights. That wouldn't be fair to the fans.

I am the voice of the people in Iran whose voices are silent and whose demands cannot be heard by the rest of the world.

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.

I have heard people say that they drink to forget their sorrows but the more I drink the more sorrows I collect

If I had grown up in any place but New Orleans, I don't think my career would have taken off. I wouldn't have heard the music that was around this town. There was so much going on when I was a kid.

I am ready to burn out for God. I am ready to endure any hardship, if by any means I might save some. The longing of my heart is to make known my glorious Redeemer to those who have never heard.

I am the best male ally I have ever heard of for women and women's liberation.

From what I've heard, Paris did a little bit more prep work as far as making bike lanes and all of that stuff. They really did it properly, which New York is getting to little by little.

I was a very devout boy and one day I heard the music of an Egyptian Koran singer in the mosque. The melancholy of this music touched me so deeply that it brought me to tears.

I haven't really written my plays and books - I've heard them. The stories are there already, singing in your genes and in your blood.

Peter was filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the Word with boldness. Even when threatened with punishment, he said that he could not help but share the things he had seen and heard.

You ever heard of a guy named Jeff Buckley? He's one of the best singers I've ever heard.

The Sherry Theater, which I named after my mom, is a place I can go. I do want to give back to the community. There are so many people out there who want to be seen and heard, and get connected.

If you heard me sing, you would just plug your ears and run, screaming, the other way. I promise.

Who is the Forgotten Man? He is the clean, quiet, virtuous, domestic citizen, who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of out of his little circle.

Voices were heard from the United States of America which made it clear that America wanted a peaceful and united Europe as a basis for mutual cooperation.

George Lucas was casting about and had heard favourable things about my work in Clockwork Orange and asked me to come in, which of course I did even though no one knew what the film was about!

There's no harm in talking to yourself, but try to avoid telling yourself jokes you've heard before.

Agesilaus being invited once to hear a man who admirably imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself.

I have friends who are going through chemotherapy, and they make the darkest, most hideous cancer jokes you've ever heard.

Too many times, people are hearing the story from the second floor. Nobody's heard the story from the basement.

Disco was like the celebration of music through dance and my God! When you heard the music sometimes it was like, if you don't get up and dance, you aren't human!

I did a couple songs with this hip-hop guy named Tim Dark. He was working in the same studio I've been working in, he heard my music and he said, aw man, I've got to do something with you.

I think I do believe in the afterlife; I have heard stories from people who I can completely trust that have seen ghosts.

In my first bands I was a singing guitar player, but if you heard any of those songs you wouldn't describe me as a singer. But I can make it work.

The 99 percent of those people who voted for Donald Trump are not Alt-righters. They are not racists. They've never even heard of the word.

Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.

The movie people would have nothing to do with me until they heard me speak in a Broadway play, then they all wanted to sign me for the silent movies.

They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball.

The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, 'What's so great about Billie Holiday?'

We'd go to the fraternity house. It was a good place to practice. But we really wanted the kids to overhear us. And whoever heard us would go nuts over it.

I believe it is the responsibility and duty of those in high-profile positions to give a voice to people whose voices cannot be heard.

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

I've never heard a song written from a stepmother's point of view, about their family.

And at the same time, I had my very first concert at the age of 16. I hadn't heard a symphony orchestra before, and I was so deeply impressed I said I have to be a conductor.

Works of art are viewed by people. They are heard by people. They are felt by people. They are not just the fodder of a close-knit group of initiates. They are the soul food of all people.

I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old.

In that film Love Story, there's a line, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." That's the dumbest thing I ever heard. Love means saying you're sorry every day for some little thing or other.

I was myself the compass of that sea: I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw Or heard or felt came not but from myself; And there I found myself more truly and more strange.